Date:	Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:47:12 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: NT4 DPMI BUG (303h, Allocate Real-Mode Callback)
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> > One other issue about the solution proposed by Peter: it sets the
> > limit of the additional selector to 32h (since it only spans the
> > real-mode registers' data structure.  This makes the segment be
> > byte-granular (as opposed to page granularity used by DJGPP for all
> > other selectors).  Can this cause any problems?  Is it safer to define
> > a page-granular segment?
> 
> Isn't it possible to have page granularity with the limit 0x32?

AFAIK, for page-granular segments, the limit is given in pages, not in 
bytes.  So 0x32 is 0x32 4KB pages.

Charles, am I right?

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